Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jill went up the hill...
...from the over-vigilant coast-guard, who insist on mistaking them for rum-runners joined the crews here late last night to complete the training camp. As usual the Freshmen are established in their quarters near the boat house, while the University. Junior and Combination eights are on the hill...
...shadow listened intently. It was beginning. Darkly, softly borne on the dark soft air, a noise of voices reached the warehouse?tumbled cries, deep and shrill blended together, struck through with the note of an automobile horn continuously blowing. They were in the lane, they were coming up the hill, they were at the door. Lights glared in the warehouse; hands reached for the huddled shadow; they hanged Albert Blazes to a beam. To the sheriff and his deputies all this was a familiar sight. Yet when at length the body stopped twitching and the last masked executioner went home...
Forty trainloads of rural Fascists rumbled into Genoa the Superb last week, joined the excited Genoese in watching for an imposing procession of ships which steamed at length into their great hill-cradled harbor. As this squadron of naval and merchant ships approached, a lone figure wearing an admiral's hat with a towering white plume was finally discerned upon the flagship's bridge. For two hours thereafter thousands of sirens blew without ceasing...
...race was the feature event of the regatta, which replaced the annual schoolboy races in the Harvard Invitation Regatta, abolished this spring. In the other race yesterday, for private school second fours. Belmont Hill defeated Noble and Greenough by four feet over the mile course...